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Page 10 These amounts, says the "Prav-! da," do not include capital outlaysOur London Air Mall Letter, such as railway building. Taking
giving all the latest news in everything together, the cost of
that great City, is given on Japan's recent campaigning ad-
Page I ventures amounted at least to one thousand million, yen.
Like other Russian newspapers, "Pravda" draws the conclusion that Japan is being taxed beyond
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LOCAL AND GENERAL
Three cases of small-pox four its financial strength to execute cases of meningitis and one Case ambitious schemes. Transocean'
each of diphtheria and scarlet" Kup Min.
fever were reported to the local health authorities on Tuesday.
Rome.. May 9. Negotiations
been that, have
A small fire broke out yesterday taking place between Italy, Aus-morning in the biscuit." factory. tria and Hungary about economic operated by the Ma Yuk San Co. matters ended on Wednesday. A at Wanchai Road. Little damage clear picture of the results achley was done, and the cause of the ed can only be obtainable when fire was apparently due to över- the text of the treaties are pub-heating from an oven.
lished. But the extent of these may be gauged from a statement made by the leader of 'the Aus- trian delegation.. Minister Schuel- ler who declared that preferential
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A committee to inquire. Into the mysterions, loss of the C.N.AC. mail plane off the Cheklang coast was appointed on May 3 by the Minis- Berlin, May 9. Though the sharemarket and duties had been conceded to over try of Communications. Its mem- prices in general were firm, the two hundred Items. On the most bers consist of Mr. Dal En-ki, ma- important raw material export naging-director of the China Na- amount of business done Was from Austria to Italy the pre- tional 'Aviation Corporation, . Gen. small, this being accounted for ferential duty of four uras per Mao Pan-chu, director of Hang- partly by the publication of the cubic metre has been arranged. chow Aviation School, Col Jouett,
latest Reichsbank returns showing
a still further decline in note-
A special agreement on the use
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Secondly, the provisions of the aviation adviser to Chinese Gov- can be and are being raised. is The Mussolini programme for cover. Doubtless the development Brocchi treaties have been modifi-emment, Mr. Sun Teh-shib, director suificiently obvious to anybody. Converting Italy into a "syndical-in the market would have been and thirdly. Italian and Aus- of the Naval Ministry's aeronauti
trian private Industrialists begin cal factory at Shanghai, Mr. Wel il we seek to know is, can, pigs corporative" State will be com- less favourable were it not for
pleted shortly,
the persistent belief that the trans-
on Thursday the discussion on be raised extensively and econo-
Wel Ti-fu, and MR Nien Kal-yi, fer conference will
practical application of these according to the Chinese press. mically, and from the vague
end shortly in agreement and very satisfactory changes. ^nswers given yesterday, we doubt
Reports of loss of mall and in- very much whether Government"
to all parties. The increased sales bas obtained sufficient expert
in the Ruhr coal in April also sup- of the free port of Trieste chea-jury to passengers, have caused pens Austria's cost for warehous-the Japanese: Communications and information to
their
ported the market. support
terest securities continued, gold wheat from Hungary in exchange throw off mall bags at way stations A buoyant tone in the fixed in- ing and transhipment. Italy has Railway authorities to halt the pre
agreed to take 200,000 tons of sent system whereby express trains mortgage and industrial bonds
for concessions made by Hiigary | where they do not stop. In the being firm. Call Money 4 to 4 for the export of Austrian indus- future, trucks will convey postal Transocean" Kuo Min.
matter from stations where ex- It is considered that Italy has press trains stop to the intervening Owing to the prolonged drought gone to the extreme limit of eco-stations. The new system came in- ansocean Kun to effect on the Tokaido and San- in Roumanis, the National Econo-nomic sacrifice. mic Council met on Wednesday to consider what measures should be taken to protect the people's food-I supply. As the harvest prospects the Japanese Consul did not make continue to decline the prices of any definite reply. Gen. Yu Hauch- all cereals rise as holders ofchung, chairman of Chihli province bread and grain are keeping back has telegraphed Nanking concern- the supplies to increase their own ing the whole matter. profits,
which would have to be incurred”?
All corporations as now, will remain under the direct control of "conclusion that the results to be Signor Mussolini, whose decrees will give legislative effect to the decisions of the Confederations.
Mussoll will appoint the Presi- Pig breeding in the New Terrident of all Corporations and tell tories would lead to a great output them exactly how to run certain of cheap agricultural produce, in branches of industry-Renter. spite of the alleged poorness of the soil. Sweet potatoes could be grown in abundance and the same can be sald of yams and tarros.
The successful raising of pigs and chickens in the New Terri- tortes may prove to be of immense beneft to the Colony in these days Upon the question of livestock,
of adverse trade balances. On the same unhelpful attitude is
these two items alone, ten million discernible. The Government "re- Hong Kong Dollars leave the gretfully came to the conclusion
Colony every year." We cannot help that the establishing of
seizing this opportunity once again experimental farm for livestock to emphasize the necessity of would not be justified by the spending as much of our money results to be obtained therefrom as possible within the Colony because of the large expenditure where it would circulate with re- which would have to be incurred curring benefit of the Colony's In the next breath, however, the population. Government proposes to "explore the matter further." The inference to be drawn from this reply Is that in the absence of an
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unsatisfactory state. We feel sure that his questions were prompted by a genuine desire to see the New Territories rendered more produc tive to the benefit of the Colony as a whole and there is every reason to press the Government to After change its point of view. all, the Government has nounced that "it is at all times prepared to give consideration, to practical suggestions for the im- Provement of New Territories production," but they give no inkling as to where the practical suggestions may come from. The only source from which, practical suggestions can come is the ex- Derts, who unfortunately have to
We trust that the Honourable member of the Council who raised this question will not permit the matter to rest in its present be paid.
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trial products.
Bucharest. May 9.
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yo lines between Tokyo and Hyogo prefectures on May 1. All other stations, will have adopted the system by the end of the year.
According to information to the "Shunpad," a Shanghai Chinese dally, the Japanese military au- thorities are constructing an air- „The Roumanian Government The Nanking Municipal Govern-feld in Palital just outside Tien- decided as the first precautionary ment is insisting upon their orig- tsin, in spite of proteste by the measure to prohibit all export of Inal order some time ago that all Chinese authorities. The director grain for the time being. This sign boards in front of shops must of the Chinese Public Safety Bur step will affect Roumania's foreign be written in Chinese characters eau has notified the Japanese Con- trade greatly because of many cur- and not in any foreign language, sul in Tientsin that the Chinese rent contracts to exchange the However, according to Chinese mes authorities would not hold them- bulk of cereals for imported neces- sazes only new sign boards come selves responsible for anything äities, while Roumania's political into the meaning of the new re- that might happen to the airfield influence in the Little Entente isulations as old sign boards using but so far activities in the con- also expected momentarily to wea- both the Chinese and foreign lan- struction of It have not ceased and ken-Transosean Kuo Min, qvf
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